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从 cóng — “from”

How to write and say the Chinese character 从 (cóng), which means from — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: This & that.

Pinyin · 拼音 cóng
Meaning · 意思 from
Strokes · 笔画 4
Radical · 部首 人 (person)
Hear it · 听发音
Watch it drawn stroke by stroke →

Stroke order笔顺

从 is written with 4 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

Picture it: one person 人 following another.

A common word常用词

从cóng小xiǎo

ever since little

Example sentence例句

我wǒ从cóng家jiā走zǒu到dào学xué校xiào。

I walk from home to school.

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